A hard truth: these days Wu-Tang is better when RZA is not involved. I know we want to regard the Abbot as an actual Abbot, butthen that means you have to take shit like this seriously. But there's life yet. After introducing their collaboration with "Six Degrees," Big Ghost aka Tony Starks and Toronto jazz brats BADBADNOTGOOD have revealed another song from a full album collaboration. Especially after Ghost's giallo hip-hop album, 2013'sTwelve Reasons To Diewith Adrian Yonge, Ghost continues to occupy the"classic" lane with flare. Also, as if you neededa reason to like him more, Ghost insists he'sa socialist, which I am going to take literally.
Because you can never have enough Piata, Gibbs and Lib will release some bonus tracks, instrumentals and remixes from their 2014 collaboration.The East Coast love letter, streaming above, is a showcase remix. There's a lot of room between Gibbs and Ransom's drug rap, Bronson's Nickelodeon flow and Joey Bada$$'s tragic verses - actually some of his most moving in a while - and the warmth of the stretched soul sample allows all the different styles to breathe.
While James Blake prepares a new album he's been stowed away in the bowels of a BBC Radio residency, playing new mixes and eating the small rodents attracted by the vibrations. Last week's contained a brand new track "Building It Still."There's a rawness that feels alien to his last albumOvergrown, but not to his beginnings as a leaderof the bloody post-dubstepinsurrection. Play this for someone who's only heard "Limit To Your Love" and watch them actually pay to download that song.
NOW HEAR THIS: Super collabs from Ghostface Killah/BADBADNOTGOOD and Freddie Gibbs/Madlib by Chart Attack | Chart Attack.
